Urban Design
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Facadism as a Heritage Strategy
Vancouver Heritage Foundation would like to thank our guest writer for this weeks article, Marta Farevaag, urban planner and Principal of PFS Studio...
By Vancouver Heritage Foundation -
The Lulu Series: Vancouver Public Space Network, March 28, 2013
Good cities are defined by the quality of their public spaces. Whether these are lively public squares or plazas, parks, beaches, civic architecture or...
By Yuri Artibise -
Victoria’s Johnson Street Bridge: a thoroughfare of song
It’s always refreshing when city planners see infrastructure projects not merely as utilitarian exercises, but also as opportunities to produce works of...
By Casey van Wensem -
MOV – Upcycled Urbanism Update: Sunday, March 10
Last Sunday’s Upcycled Urbanism workshop at the Museum of Vancouver saw participants engage in a group hallucination. Led by UBC School of...
By Ian Lowrie -
MOV: Upcycled Urbanism Workshop, Sunday, March 17th
Please join us for the second workshop in MOV’s Upcycled Urbanism series: Block Talk: creating spaces that connect people  DATE: March 17th TIME...
By Spacing -
Laneway Housing Event: March 20, 2013
The Emerging Green Builders of Metro Vancouver are proud to invite the general public to a special presentation by top laneway housing experts on this...
By Yuri Artibise -
CoV – Ironclad Art Manhole Cover Design Challenge
The City of Vancouver invites everyone who lives, works or goes to school in Vancouver to submit designs for new manhole covers. Contest Dates Opens...
By Spacing -
SALA Lecture: Eric Miller—March 18, 2013
Lecture by UBC Margolese National Design for Living Prize winner Eric Miller, University of Toronto. For over 30 years, Eric Miller’s research into the...
By Yuri Artibise -
MOV – Upcycled Urbanism Update: Sunday, March 3
Next Session: Sunday, March 10 2:00PM – 4:00PM @ MOV (1100 Chestnut St) And we are off to the races… Leading into a series of workshops taking place...
By Anya Paskovic -
MOV Upcycled Urbanism, Second Workshop – March 10th
Please join us for the second workshop in MOV’s Upcycled Urbanism series: Hallucinating in Public: creating environments that are beautiful and...
By Spacing -
Video Vancouver: Jane Jacob on Visual Order, Art & Life
A short reading from The Death and Life of Great American Cities, by Jane Jacobs. This copy published by Vintage Books, copyright 1961. Chapter 19, Visual...
By Yuri Artibise -
Designing Together: the first workshop in MOV’s Upcycled Urbanism series, March 3rd
Designing Together: the first workshop in MOV’s Upcycled Urbanism series Sunday, March 3rd – 2:00PM – 4:00PM @ MOV (1100 Chestnut St)Â...
By Erick Villagomez